Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 738
Title From heav'n on high I come to you
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key D-Major
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales
Event Christmas
Author of text Martin Luther, 1538
Text

From heav'n on high I come to you,
I bring to you glad tidings new;
I bring to you good tidings new;
Of that good news I bring so much,
Thereof both sing and tell I will.

Manuscript Music library, Leipzig; Yale University, New Haven; Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Goettingen; Bach Archive, Leipzig; Hessisch Country and Highschool library, Darmstadt, Estate Aloys Fuchs; Estate Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Bodleian library, Oxford; Universitäty library, Warzawa; Royal library, Kopenhavn; Royal library, Brussels; Highschool for Music, Berlin

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